* tike64 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Also, have you tried this with a nanosleep instead of a select.
> > Select's timeout is just that, a timeout. It's not suppose to be
> > accurate, as long as it doesn't expire early. The reason I state
> > this, is that select uses a different mechanism than nanosleep, and
> > that can indeed affect the jitter.
>
> Ok, understood; I tried this:
>
> t = raw_timer();
> ts.tv_nsec = 5000000;
> ts.tv_sec = 0;
> nanosleep(&ts, 0);
> t = raw_timer() - t;
>
> It is better but I still see 8ms occasional delays when listing
> nfs-mounted directories onto FB. And, what is funny, also this version
> makes the average delay 20ms as if it made the jiffy 20ms.
ARM has no high resolution timers support yet in the -rt tree.
Ingo
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